They will feel all the force of my anger. I will not spare them or show them any mercy. They will shout prayers to me as loud as they can, but I will not listen to them."

But I will not have pity on them; I will do to them what they have done to others."

You can see for yourself that just now in the cave the LORD put you in my power. Some of my men told me to kill you, but I felt sorry for you and said that I would not harm you in the least, because you are the one whom the LORD chose to be king.

But you did not abandon them there in the desert, for your mercy is great. You did not take away the cloud or the fire that showed them the path by day and night.

They were not loyal to him; they were not faithful to their covenant with him.

But God was merciful to his people. He forgave their sin and did not destroy them. Many times he held back his anger and restrained his fury.

"Mortal man," he said, "this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to the land of Israel: This is the end for the whole land!

While I was prophesying, Pelatiah dropped dead. I threw myself face downward on the ground and shouted, "No, Sovereign LORD! Are you going to kill everyone left in Israel?"

(The LORD has said that the whole earth will become a wasteland, but that he will not completely destroy it.)

The LORD says, "Yet even in those days I will not completely destroy my people.

Like a great rushing flood he completely destroys his enemies; he sends to their death those who oppose him.

What are you plotting against the LORD? He will destroy you. No one opposes him more than once.